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Summary: His voice touched our hearts. He has touched many lives.
Review: There were no rules for handling fame and fortune when a young Eddie Fisher encountered stardom. There were also no words until this last decade to discribe love addiction. Eddie's voice and songs touched our hearts. His life was lived at a time when fantasy and reality overlapped, and fantasy was the reality. Eddie's words will encourage others to seek quidance. His courage in overcoming his realities is inspiring. Thank you, Eddie.
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Summary: Sleazy, Slimy and Degrading
Review: This guy is such a joke. It's no fun to read about a has-been dishing dirt when you aren't even sure what details are true and which aren't. Plus he's so incredibly self-involved and egotistical - his head is so swollen that it would be impossible to measure its circumference. Carrie Fisher, by her own admission, has refused to speak to Eddie since the publication of this book, and I can't say as I blame her. I don't consider him to be all that self-effacing. Even when he tries, it comes out as whiny and defensive. The only way that this book ever could be considered as a good, interesting read is to go through and try to imagine how someone this conceited ever made it as huge as he claims to have done. Rubbish.
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Summary: Sleazy, Slimy and Degrading
Review: This guy is such a joke. It's no fun to read about a has-been dishing dirt when you aren't even sure what details are true and which aren't. Plus he's so incredibly self-involved and egotistical - his head is so swollen that it would be impossible to measure its circumference. Carrie Fisher, by her own admission, has refused to speak to Eddie since the publication of this book, and I can't say as I blame her. I don't consider him to be all that self-effacing. Even when he tries, it comes out as whiny and defensive. The only way that this book ever could be considered as a good, interesting read is to go through and try to imagine how someone this conceited ever made it as huge as he claims to have done. Rubbish.
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Summary: One interesting and troubled man
Review: This is one of the hardest reviews I've written because I honestly wasn't sure when I finished this book if half of what I had just read was true or said merely for revenge. While the story of Eddie Fisher's career is interesting there is so much malicious gossip that it detracts from the basic story.
Starting as a talented child and then through a very up and down career Mr. Fisher never had any doubts about his abilities professionally. Through his version of his marriages to Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor, Connie Stevens and so forth we get all the dirt that we ever wanted to hear and then some. While I like a good "Hollywood" biography as much as the next person I've never read one that gave me so many details on people that I really didn't WANT to hear. Sometimes petty, sometimes shocking and frequently doubtful there's a lot of stuff in this book that really could and should have been left unsaid. A strong proponent of freedom of speech I also believe that much of what Mr. Fisher had to say was simply unkind and people who have since died like Montgomery Clift and Roddy McDowell are no longer able to defend themselves and to deny what is printed about themselves. Although he never had any doubts about his singing ability Mr. Fisher is also quite self-effacing about his shortcomings as a husband, father and speaks openly about his addictions. What is probably the best aspect of the book is when the reader realizes how much Eddie Fisher has learned along his journey. I wish him peace but I wish he didn't have to be so just plain mean in this version of his life.
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Summary: Reads like a Touches book on Dean Martin...
Review: This is the last hollywood memoir of its genre...A funnyvignette is his faking 'heartburn' to get into a hospital..doctorinsisted he have an UNeeded- appendectomy! The Beattles will tour before he & Elizabeth meet again.
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Summary: A Book Without Heroes
Review: This volume has no heroes: not Connie Stevens, not Debbie Reynolds and especially not Liz Taylor. And you won't feel sorry for Eddie who across the three marriages was a terrible father, a serious drug offender, and in pursuit of lust, threw away what could have been the ultimate singing career of the last half century. Still, I could not put this book down. Highly engrossing.
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Summary: Good Enough Book
Review: This was an interesting enough book. I felt like Eddie Fisher didn't really become sleezy until after Elizabeth Taylor dumped him. They say if you see a really screwed up guy, a girl/woman did it. Well, there you go. Of course, I'm no authority on Eddie Fisher. He was before my time. I knew him as Carrie Fisher's father. I felt sorry for Debbie Reynolds and how he runs her down in the book. Since she is the mother of his children, it wasn't very classy of him. If you want to read a good gossipy Hollywood book, read this. Ann Margret, Bing Crosby, no one is spared.
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Summary: Shut Up, Eddie!
Review: Two decades after his first memoir, Eddie Fisher is at it again , exposing his considerable shortcomings in a retread of the same familiar territory - philandering husband, absent father, and a career that's been in the toilet for forty years. By his own admission - and by his own hand -- he's a three-time loser of astonishing proportions. One would think that in the second go-round of this woeful tale he could at least have grown up enough to accept full responsibility for for the disastrous path he took, and indeed there are repeated mea culpas throughout the book. But these are universally overshadowed by the whining "they made me do it" attitude he adopts early on. Sure, Eddie admits he was a jerk - but how could poor Eddie not be, when virtually everyone else in his life was so terrible? Give me a break! Eddie is certainly not looking to make amends with anyone with this book. The women who loved him all receive a thorough trashing, with page after page of salacious - and wholly unnecessary - details. It's impossible to believe, in spite of his admission that he regrets not being a good father, that any of his children would have any respect for him at all after reading this. He doesn't seem to regret be a terrible husband, but I'm sure his ex-wives already knew that! The Fisher children all have my sympathy, and my first-ever fan letter will go to Debbie Reynolds. Eddie, I sure hope you made a bundle from this book, so we'll be spared yet another sequel!
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Summary: Early admirer remains an admirer
Review: When I was a teenager, Eddie Fisher's songs provided the backdrop for my early romances. They had great words, wonderful music, and the voice of a musical master. When I read Eddie's earlier book MY LIFE, MY LOVES, I learned that his life had been far from a glorious fantasy. Still, I welcomed the astonishing music he gave to me, my dates, my life. Today, I still buy his tapes. Reading this book did not diminish my respect for him. He was in Atlanta recently for a book signing, and I wished I could be there--but I had an unavoidable professional conflict. The book displays a splendid mirror of life at the top. Additionally, we see how being at the top doesn't mean that you will stay there automatically. Some people grieve because Elvis died as a result of drugs. In many ways, the incredible career of Eddie Fisher suffered the same fate. Fortunately, his body did not. I welcomed the book's overall message--that no matter how badly a person squanders his God-given talents and hurts others, as long as life remains there are opportunites for rebuilding--and reconciliation. Eddie Fisher was the greatest singer of my teenage generation. Through this book, he has become the greatest symbol of personal resuscitation for those who have failed dramatically. This book should be required reading for anyone entering drug rehabilitation. Thank you, Eddie, for all the music, and for a book that sings with triumph! Wish you were here!
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Summary: EXCELLENT! Definately dishes the dirt!
Review: While not War and Peace, this VERY engaging and easy-to-read fare is gossip trash at it's finest! He tells it like it is, and even offers positive comments re: Debbie Reynolds where due. So...if the National Enquirer type-read is your scene, this is THE book! =)
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